via the Telegraph
As Coffee Republic finance director James Muirhead, unveiled the chain’s 12th consecutive year of losses despite a quadrupling of outlets, he said: “It would be naive not to expect a slowdown and belt tightening in the current economic climate.”
I’d like to meet the shareholders of Coffee Republic. I’ve got this bridge for sale…
Seriously, […]
From The Telegraph
The team from Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris drilled a 3mm hole into the skull of a patient under local anaesthetic, inserting a tiny fibre-optic cable armed with a laser.
The doctors were then able to “see” the metastatic tumour and steer the cable thanks […]
Helen Browning in The Guardian
Ethical shoppers are not just middle-class faddists. The assumptions that those on lower incomes just don’t care about better food anymore, or the health of farm animals, or our environment, are hideously patronising.
It’s not that those on lower incomes don’t care, it’s that they can’t afford to do so. Extra lean […]
Boris Johnson on Olympic Wins
Roughly 58 per cent of the contestants we sent to Athens in 2004 were educated at independent schools - schools of a type that educate only seven per cent of the general population; and, in the past three Olympics, the independent sector has walked off with 45 per cent of […]
I stumbled across Liliputting which is a blog dedicated to all the news about small laptops (<12″) which seem to be one of the most fast moving areas of computing at the moment.
Grabbing a few groceries, I also noticed that Sainsburys are selling a rebadged MSI Wind laptop called the Medion Akoya which runs using […]
From the BBC:-
Holidaymakers and boaters have been urged to take extra care as coastguard staff go on a 48-hour strike over pay. Approximately 700 Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) staff, will strike from Saturday to Monday.
You could just go to one of the beaches that has RNLI lifeguards. You can enjoy a nice paddle in […]
From an old Register article about ID cards from 2005:-
the major beneficiary has been PA Consulting, appointed in May as “development partner” for the ID scheme.
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PA is, allegedly, “work on the design, feasibility testing, business case and procurement elements of the programme.
I’m sure that the whole thing will be perfectly secure then…
via the BBC:
A contractor working for the Home Office has lost a computer memory stick containing personal details about tens of thousands of criminals.
The only time I ever use memory sticks is for things like taking some photos to be printed at Jessops. The rest of the time, data gets moved around across networks. It’s […]
Do you ever need to rename a lot of files in a particular way? I have a utility to help out…
I was trying to rip CDs to MP3 for my Creative Nomad player tonight. I normally use FreeRip which does an excellent job and is highly customisable, but it couldn’t seem to fetch the CD […]
I’ve just been having a look at Google Insight Search which offers some new ways to analyse search volumes. As well as comparing search terms, you can also see search trends across a year, and search trends comparing years with countries. The picture below shows the results for a search for “Father Christmas”.
So, if you […]
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